The two speakers at this event will be China Law Blog’s own Steve Dickinson and Paul Gillis, Professor of Practice at Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. The webcast/teleconference is expected to focus on the following:

The structure and legality of VIEs

The enforceability of New Oriental Education’s (EDU) VIE contracts under Chinese law

The Significance of the SEC’s investigation into EDU and its impact on other US-listed VIE companies.

For more information on this event, go here. If you miss it live, there will be an audio replay within around 24 hours and there will also be a transcript available for purchase.

For those of you who really want to prepare for this event beforehand, I recommend you read the following China Law Blog posts:

If you read all of the above, you will probably know more about VIEs than anyone else alive. If you are going to read just one post, make it “Explaining VIE structures.” Oh, and just to give you more to read, I also recommend you read the Silicon Hutong post, “VIEs, The Long Resolution.” In that post, David Wolf talks of how the Chinese government likes to “boil its frogs slowly, not all at once,” and he then talks of how VIEs are on the wrong side of where China wants to be going.

have either you or your co-blogger steve dickinson ever worked on a deal involving a VIE structure?

http://www.chinalawblog.com/ Dan Harris

We worked on a number of such deals many many years ago, but a few years ago we became so negative on them that we essentially talked ourselves out of the market. Once we started making clear that we thought they were too risky, companies stopped coming to us to do them — no surprise. However, Steve has been a consultant/expert on a number of VIE deals and lawsuits even since then. Just curious why you are asking?

http://twitter.com/LongShortTrader Daniel

You mention this event as ‘free’, but the link to GLG site does not provide any links, phone numbers, etc. to access.

kong

Most of companies listing in HKSE are using VIE structure also. For example, 0881.hk 1728.hk and another car dealership companies are structure in VIE. And I think Sands China and Wynn Macau uses VIE also.

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